Mark's Coast to Coast Bike Trek

The Southern States - San Diego CA to St. Augustine FL

Food and Money, Facts and Figures

• Food
• Money
• Weight of Equipment
• Trip Facts
• Trip Weather
• For The Record Book

Trip Itinerary

• Itinerary Table
• Code Table
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Food

• Breakfast - fix and ate all breakfast at camp - mostly can tuna and ramen noodles, potted meat and ramen noodles, Lipton Pasta and Sauce or Lipton Noodles and Sauce - my favorite food for breakfast was can tuna in oil with ramen noodles - a cheap meal, 18 cent for ramen noodles and 45 cents for the can tuna
• Snacks - oranges, apples, cookies, candy bars and ice cream bars
• Lunch - bought all lunch on the road (grocery stores, gas stations, deli, fast food places) or ate snacks I had on the bike - mostly oranges, apples, cookies, candy bars
• Dinner - fix and ate about 70% dinners at camp, 30% at restaurants - I fix mostly Lipton's (Pasta and Sauce, Rice and Sauce, Noodles and Sauce), Rice A Roni, and Macaroni and Cheese - I often add to these meals can tuna, meat, can meat, cheese, onions, etc. - the Lipton meals packs particularly well since it's in an envelope and are waterproof, so you could stuff them in various locations in your bags - the Macaroni and Cheese boxes are only half full, they need to be repack in a plastic bag to save space and keep dry - bought some grits and brown sugar for a sweet meal, you can add cheese and ham or sausage to it
• General Food Notes - I carry no salt, pepper or spices with me - only once I had a cheap band of Macaroni and Cheese too bland to eat - for butter I use the squeezeable vegetable oil spread that came in a plastic bottle - I always try carrying one day of food supplies on the bike, remote areas more - I lost 30 LB of weight on the trip
• Drinks - oranges are source of juice since they are more than 95% juice - I often carry a couple oranges when possible - pop was very expense in remote places often double or triple in price - for a several days in west Texas I spent more money on drinks than food - for trip as a whole probably more money was spent on drinks than food - at food marts and fast food places where you serve your own drinks, you can get more juice by not get any ice, the juice was always cold and the ice is nothing but a filler - I should drank more water but I don't like warm water

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Money

• Road money - on the road I send a total of $850 for everything (hotels, camping fees, drinks, food, snacks, supplies, entertainment, stamps, film etc.) from start of trip in San Diego to the end in St. Augustine - that come to an average of $17 per day
• Equipment money - since I already have backpacking gear and clothing, most money was spent for equipping the bike - cool tool, rear panniers, mirror, tires, bike shorts, maps, etc.
• Travel money - for air fare to San Diego and bus fare to return home - I decide not fly home from Jacksonville FL because of the hassle of - getting to the airport - getting the bike to the airport - boxing the bike - higher cost of a last minute ticket - not know when my arrived date to St Augustine would be

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Weight Of Equipment

• Weight of bike -35 LB - it's a heavy bike!
• Weight of bike gear - LB -
• Weight of other gear - LB -
• Weight of clothing - 5.7 LB - not including clothing worn and sandals
• Total weight - LB - not sure - approx. 70 LB at start trip - approx. 60 to 65 at end of trip
• Shipped weight of UPS box - 72 LB - with bike, all bike and camping gear, clothing and personal stuff, food, and shipping packing

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Trips Facts

• 50 days
• 3211 miles
• average of 64.2 miles per day
• 850 dollars spent for road money
• spent an average of 17 dollars per day
• spent an average of 26 cent per mile

Stay At

• 6 hotel
• 20 RV Park
• 9 State Park
• 4 Community Park
• 11 other

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Trip Weather

• Days of rain - six days of rain
• Days of head winds - seem like almost every day
• Days of tail winds - I can count that on one hand
• Highest temperate of the trip - AZ
• Highest low temperate of the trip - central TX, two nights was to warm to fall asleep
• Lowest high temperate of the trip - 60 degrees in MS
• Lowest temperate of the trip - 20 degrees in NM - mountain top

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For The Record Book

• Most miles in one day - 110 miles to Manou LA - have an all day light tail wind
• Least miles in one day - next day, 28 miles to Opelousas LA - head wind plus want to do some site seeing in Opelousas
• Highest point - 8228 feet at Emory Pass NM
• Lowest point - below sea level at El Centro CA

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Trip Itinerary

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